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I'm glad they chose GNOME, as KDE is far more aimed at the traditional UNIX workstation user - the developer who needs loads of features and options as well as the best in IDEs (KDevelop), who typically is working on a large project with loads of others collaborating. GNOME is good for people who want to use their machine for less intensive work IMO, like everyday tasks such as web browsing, email and office suites, and the sort of things 'normal' non-programmers do on a computer. The last thing an office clerk needs is a huge selection of programs and massive menus when you right click anything, but for someone like myself who is a developer on Linux KDE is absolute heaven as it does every single thing I want and runs very quickly (at least Konqueror is much quicker than Nautilus or Mozilla on my machine - in SUSE 9.0 windows load with a 0 second delay - instantly for web browsing or file management). I have to say some of the options save loads of typing at the command prompt, and time! I couldn't care what a system looks like, and have never done any customisation, so long as it works well it's fine with me, that's more important personally than eye candy!

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